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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.
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A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.
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I am not for women but against men.
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In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
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I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.
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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
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A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
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When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.
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The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
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The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.
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There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.
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Talent is often a defect in character.
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Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.
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In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.
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An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.
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Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
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Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.
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